OK, I’ll admit, I did not listen to that much of the “it’s not about me, but, hey, look at me, I’m Thee President” prime time campaign stop. I tuned out while driving to get dinner not long after I heard him say I’m the president, this MUST get done and then yammering on about […]

If you guessed hybrid, the tequila shot is on me Quite a few big-name auto insurers have been giving hybrid owners a discount on their premium. But those deals might not last much longer; as an insurance data-analysis firm points out, the insurance industry could be losing big because of this. The surprising result: Hybrid […]

This past Sunday a Hilton hotel right outside of Chicago hosted a conference for Hizbut-Tahrir, an Islamic extremist group connected to terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda. The seminar was entitled, “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam” and was attended by approximately 500 Hizbut-Tahrir members. As the title of their gathering suggests, the […]

Keep it up everyone. Great work!!

Overall impression: I agree with Krauthammer: President Obama talked for an hour about selling a program that will save money, make government more efficient and better, only the evil rich will be soaked, etc. As Krauthammer said, “None of the questions nicked him.” Well, maybe the transparency one, but that wasn’t really about the specifics […]

Rasmussen reports on how our post-partisan, post-racial Affirmative Action presidency is coming along in fulfilling its promise to unite us: July 22, 2009: The President earns approval from 83% of Democrats but 81% of Republicans disapprove. … July 21, 2009: Among men, 26% Strongly Approve and 36% Strongly Disapprove. … July 20, 2009: The President […]

It isn’t just our leftist government that has been squarely behind Manuel Zelaya in his bid to reduce Honduras to a communist dictatorship. As you’ll recall, the thug serving as president (Zelaya, not Obama) was run out of town on a rail when he declared there would be a national referendum on repealing term limits, […]

I noted the other day that the Obama administration was hiding its revised budget numbers from the public until August. Obviously, in light of the push to pass health care legislation, they don’t want anymore bad news out there than the CBO has already delivered. And, of course, there’s no doubt that had the news […]

Who really cares about a pudgy Surgeon General? Remember K. Everett Koop? He was lovable in his Little House On The Prairie, old timey Doctor sort of way. Was he the Supreme Master of Fitness? Uh, no. But that wasn’t his job. His job, if a Surgeon General, even has a real job, was to […]

From Feb 26, 2009 in a post called, “The GOP Should S-L-O-W Things Down,” The other option the Democrats have, which is exactly what I would do if I were in their place, is to treat this as a historic opportunity and ram as much of their agenda down people’s throats as they can. That […]

How powerful is the press in creating the narrative around President Obama? His poll numbers have slipped and I’m wondering if their full court press can rescue him. Can shiny, happy, soft-focused coverage for a huge government health care plan change the poll numbers? Will President Obama’s cajoling, reasoned, pleading tones work on the American […]

Whether they be Libertarians, members of the Constitution Party, Reform Party members, angry independents, or tea partiers who don’t feel either party is serving their interests, there are plenty of disaffected people agitating for a third party in America. Although I think it’s extremely unlikely that a successful third party could get off the ground, […]

One of the memes that the Left has tried to hammer into place in recent months is that conservatives encourage violence. This is not new. In fact, Bill Clinton himself tried to blame conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular for the Oklahoma City bombing. Of late, liberals have latched onto the […]

And then they will spend quite a bit defending against what they should have stopped. How else to read this? US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is prepared to bolster the defence of its Gulf allies if Iran develops a nuclear weapons programme. Mrs Clinton said if the US extended a “defence […]

Let’s take a look from the DUmmy perspective Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees. (but, they are nowhere close to actually closing Gitmo and are still holding all those folks) Reversed […]

Former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin says this isn’t just about him: “For a second I was thinking, ‘Why do I need all of this?’ I’ll just resign and go back to my good legal practice in New York,” Gerald Walpin told The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show Tuesday. “But I would then […]

As yet another piece of evidence to show just how biased the MSM have become against outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, take a look at the first sentence of an article which Yahoo! featured earlier in the day as one of its news headlines, Investigator rules against Palin in ethics probe:* An independent investigator has […]

This is a fantastic video.

A bit of ego, a little dab of moral vanity, a smidge of hubris all driven by an agenda and you have the perfect definition of the political class worldwide. Of course I understate the smidges, bits and dabs by quite a bit. But that class has a problem. Other than boring economic stuff they […]

Today, David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, did a blogger teleconference to address allegations made in a July 17, 2009 story in the Politico. I wrote about the story here in a post called A Reluctant Open Letter To The American Conservative Union: Fire David Keene. Opening Statement Most of what David Keene […]

In my American Issues Project Column today, I talk about President Obama and the Democrats he leads, prods, cajoles, browbeats, and blackmails into submission and their collective disrespect for the American taxpayer: Have you seen any of those shows that follow up on lottery winners? You know, the ones where the people had been down […]

It may never be known whether George Orwell predicted modern Democrats, or Democrats used 1984 and Animal Farm as instruction manuals. In either case, Dems have taken the Orwellian practice of calling things the opposite of what they are to the point of self-parody. The latest knee-slapper: a bill shoveling more of our money at […]

Wasting gargantuan sums of money that it will take us generations to repay isn’t as easy as it sounds. Our liberal rulers have had to use their imaginations to flush so much away so quickly. The clever wild horse welfare bill will burn up the better part of a $billion: The bill would provide 700 […]

David Brooks flaps his jaws again and this time, he’s going after his beloved, well-spoken Barack Obama for falling into the same trap as Republican president George W. Bush, except, I don’t see the parallel. At all. Here’s Brooks: It’s not that interesting to watch the Democrats lose touch with America. That’s because the plotline […]

Yes, I talk about it all through my feverish, ranty haze. I have some sort of virus that has me rolling through fever and cold sweats. A downside to having kids is catching every single kid illness that comes along. Bloggers mentioned in this podcast: Ace of Spades, Robert Stacy McCain, Michelle Malkin and AllahPundit. […]

Of course, this might be redundant, since the whole AGW movement is a fraud HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has recently uncovered what is thought to be the first attempted UK tax fraud in the carbon emissions trading market. The tax dodge is a variation of the “carousel” VAT fraud. Carousel fraud, also known as […]

I guess all the partying, campaining, and running around the world apologizing has been counter-productive to Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year of him taking office. Signing legislation to close G’itmo was one of his first acts, done on his second day in office. He even said that Americans […]

I’ve finally gotten around to knocking out my favorite quotations from Chairman Ann’s 2008 columns. I’m thinking about doing the best of Mark Steyn next. Anybody else I should hit? Jonah Goldberg maybe? Thomas Sowell would seem to be a no brainer, but wow, does he churn out the columns. That would be a lot […]

This is from an email I received yesterday, Mr. Hawkins, I’ve been a reader of your site for some years now. I’ve changed email addresses a few times but I’ve written in to you before under the names advrobw and docsinokc. When I started reading your page(s), I would have described myself as a moderate […]

If a Republican secretary somewhere sends out a racist email or somebody makes a racist comment on a Republican’s Facebook page, the Democratic grievance machine cranks up to full speed and the left declares that every Republican in America is a racist. Meanwhile, there are plenty of these minor racial slights that occur on the […]